As mentioned in my previous post, I was really interested to push the Cornely 121 technique and see what kind of samples I could manipulate the machine to do. As I am looking at lace, I thought that I may as well start with something difficult, just to see what the outcome would be like and to determine whether or not this was going to be a suitable machine for my project. I'm not usually someone to brag about my work, but I am so, so chuffed with how my first samples came out! I didn't expect to be able to create something so beautiful...
It took a while to get to grips with the settings of the machine, it's quite a delicate, slow process, and uses a lot of thread and cording, so each sample took a long time to set up. After I'd created my first sample neatly, I managed to cut the sample making timing down by a rather large amount, by making the samples with continuous lines, instead of stopping and starting for every section. yes- it made the samples a little messier, but I am wanting to layer up these pieces, so a little less detail isn't too much of a problem. I am going to continue to produce more samples on this machine, next looking into cut-work and layering.